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The Michael Kieran Harvey Collection

Crystal Vision

Crystal Vision

Pianist Michael Kieran Harvey has for the last several years embarked on a project to record the very finest in modern composition for the piano. Perhaps the most unusual and one of the most beautiful is a recording of the Japanese composer Kanako Okamoto. This unique fusion between Japanese and Western Art music has produced some truly wonderful results. Below is a link review of this CD featured in the International Alliance of women in music:

Crystal Vision Review.

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The Frog

Mists and Statues

Leidenschaft

Dimensions of night

Dimensions of night

Australian pianist Michael Kieran Harvey is tireless in his promotion of contemporary piano music. Dimensions of night which has just been released is the tenth instalment in his landmark series of modern piano music, the 'Michael Kieran Harvey Collection'.

Larry Sitsky's "Dimensions of Night" draws on ancient legend, myth and spiritual history. It reflects on the connectedness of the world's religious mythologies and their frequent exploitation to cause harm to the vulnerable. The epic employs a series of chords to underpin the sequence of harmonies throughout the whole cycle.

Following the premiere performance late in 2008, music critic Peter Donnelly described the work: "Sitsky is here reflecting on the connectedness of the world's religious mythologies and their frequent exploitation to cause harm to the vulnerable. Beginning with sinuous and winding music depicting Zoroastrianism, the music becomes increasingly violent, edgy and intense. Relief in the form of gentler emotions eventually comes in the 8th section, leading to a purging of evil influences in the utter calm representing the 'tsaddig' shaman figure of the Hasidic Jews in the final section. Michael Kieran Harvey produced playing of amazing virtuosity throughout."

Sometimes demanding for both audience and performer, one is always aware of a powerful musical mind at work.

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Find out more about Michael Kieran Harvey

	Tensile Flame Michael Kieran Harvey, piano Michael Kieran Harvey: "My interest in the music of Liszt resulted in the first compact disc, originally released in 1991. The record traces the influence of the Liszt B minor Sonata on three early 20th Century composers: Rachmaninov, Ravel and Skryabin.
	Rabid Bay Michael Kieran Harvey, piano Michael Kieran Harvey is one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music of his generation. A champion of Australian music and himself a composer, he regularly commissions new Australian music and has performed Australian music with Australia's leading contemporary music ensembles and orchestras.
	Catalogue d'oiseaux (Catalogue of birds) Michael Kieran Harvey and Peter Cundall Each of the 13 pieces in the Catalogue d'oiseaux explores the calls and environment of a single bird species. Virtuoso pianist Michael Kieran Harvey's dazzling pianistic pyrotechnics are displayed to the full in this amazing live performance recorded in Hobart in April 2005.
	Preludes and Sonata of Messiaen and Shostakovich Michael Kieran Harvey, piano Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) were two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. Both were remarkable in that they discovered their own unique and distinctive creative voice when they were in their teens and each was inspired by one of the two great 'religions' of the twentieth century, Catholicism and Communism respectively.
	The way of the seeker Michael Kieran Harvey Written by Larry Sitsky in 2004 is a highly virtuosic piano work played by Michael Kieran Harvey. The Way of the Seeker is based on thematic material derived from fragments of oriental chant. This work takes its title from the English translation of Hakim Sanai's mystical text the Sair al-Ibad ila'l Maad (the Way of the Seeker) written in the 11th century.
	In the time of sakura The piano music of Mike Nock played by Michael Kieran Harvey Mike Nock returned to Australia in 1985 after spending 25 years in the US where he established an international reputation through his many tours and recordings. Although primarily known as a jazz composer his music has been commissioned and performed by such as the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra (USA), The New Zealand Piano Quartet & New Zealand String Quartet, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, Synergy, ensemble 24 and Melbourne Windpower among many others.
	Broadway Boogie Michael Kieran Harvey Broadway Boogie is a collection of new music for piano featuring works by Nigel Westlake, Andrew Ford, Andrew Byrne, Mark Pollard and Michael Kieran Harvey. It won the best classical CD of 2008 in Melbourne's Herald-Sun.
	Crystal Vision the piano music of Kanako Okamoto performed by Michael Kieran Harvey This instalment of the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection features the piano music of Kanako Okamoto.
	The school of natural philosophy Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard All my life I have been fascinated by the interaction of science and art, especially with music. In an age where art music seems to have been relegated to the area of palliative care by "market forces", the uncompromising approach of some composers still willing to embrace science and the natural world seems to me very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment: to oppose the monolithic hegemonies of church, state and ideology, and instead fight for pluralism and individual freedom, to think for oneself, and to pursue one's curiosity. Michael Kieran Harvey
	Elektra Australian piano music by Gifford, Gould, Ford, Yu and Michael Kieran Harvey Elektra is an experiment in extending acoustic piano sound via computer, and was a collaboration with sound engineer Michael Hewes, who surfed the piano resonances in real time.

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